Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin발음듣기
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[piano music] We're looking at a painting in the Fogg's collection.발음듣기
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It's a very famous self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh.발음듣기
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It's one of the toughest self-portraits I've ever seen.발음듣기
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Tough in terms of the color, tough in terms of all that van Gogh is achieving at this moment in the late 1880s.발음듣기
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This is a painting that feels incredibly modern to me.발음듣기
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A willingness to take risks...발음듣기
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It's amazing in that way...is breathtaking.발음듣기
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This is a color that no artist ever used before.발음듣기
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And an entire background painted like that?발음듣기
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What nerve he had to take such radical steps!발음듣기
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My eye immediately goes to the structure of the painting, the way in which he created the architecture of the face, his use of line... look at the way in which the brushstrokes wrap around, cascade around the eye and down the nose.발음듣기
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It's almost like a river of paint as it flows across that face and begins to define it.발음듣기
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But then it's not just brushwork at all.발음듣기
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It's the ways in which structure is actually built by color...발음듣기
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By color, yeah, which I think was something that Cezanne was also thinking about.발음듣기
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Creating volume with color instead of a usual way with chiaroscuro...발음듣기
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But that the pinks and the purples that are in his temple, and the way those modulate over to greens is like nothing I've ever seen.발음듣기
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So he's treating the structure of his face, of his head, of his skull, very much as if it was a kind of plastic medium.발음듣기
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He writes about this portrait that he's created eyes almost as if he was Japanese, a reference to his love of East-Asian painting.발음듣기
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But this was a painting that was destined as a gift to Gauguin as part of an exchange.발음듣기
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The sort of utopian idea of a brotherhood of artists that was so important to him.발음듣기
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And, of course, Gauguin also would have been very interested in East-Asian art.발음듣기
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This way that he's rendered the hair on his head, plastered down, it's in strong contrast, visually, the way in which the coat feels heavy and rough and oversized.발음듣기
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And then there's the very tight quality to the skin.발음듣기
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Well, I was noticing that too and what it was reminding me of was a skull.발음듣기
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The sense of the bones underneath his flesh and almost a kind of 'memento mori'.발음듣기
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Look at the browns and the blues, rust colors in his jacket.발음듣기
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This green, a sea of acid light that surrounds him.발음듣기
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He's an amazing colorist. [piano music]발음듣기
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